76% of attendants said they "established new business or professional connections that they will follow-up with after the conference" or "Learned more about the Fresno urban and African-American communitylearned more about the Fresno urban and African-American communities"

94% were Very Satisfied with Power Breakfast Speaker, Dr. Robert Watts

90% of the conference survey respondents were very satisified or satisfied with the over conference

Federal/State Basic payroll Tax Seminar

October 20, 2010

9:30am-3:30pm

Central California SBDC

UC Merced Regional Network

550 E. Shaw Fresno, CA 93710

 NO CHARGE

You will learn:

•  California payroll reporting requirements: forms, employer obligations, reporting, and payment requirements
•  About independent contractor reporting requirements
• Electronic filing and payment requirements and options
• Federal payroll reporting requirements: Forms 940, 941, 1099, W-2, W-4, W-9, and alternative filing

To make reservations

www.edd.ca.gov/payroll_tax_seminars/ or call (866) 873-6083

For additional seminar dates, times & locations

 www.edd.ca.gov/payroll_tax_seminars or call (888) 745-3886

Submitted by Mark Kimber, Kimber & Kimber

 A recent study of campaign advertising expenditures for the November 2010 California gubernatorial election by the nation's leading African American print advertising agency, KimberKimber.com, has revealed major discrepancies between mainstream media, Hispanic media, and African American media outlets by political candidate's and political party's nationwide. These discrepancies are being interpreted as racist and discriminatory in nature by the African American community and can easily be the deciding factor in many elections across the country.

The most glaring examples of these discrepancies were found in the current 2010 California gubernatorial race by Republican candidate Meg Whitman, whose campaign has spent a record 110 million dollars with mainstream and Latino media outlets while spending none of her campaign advertising dollars with African American media outlets. Similarly, the DNC (Democratic National Committee) is spending 50 million dollars in their national "Get Out the Vote" advertising campaign in the next three weeks and none with Black owned media in the state. Likewise, California's Democratic candidates have spent an estimated 80 million dollars collectively have not spent any of their ad dollars with Black owned media. Read more....